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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Overview

What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?

IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which…

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Popular Features

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  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (78)
    9.0
    90%
  • Security controls (75)
    8.8
    88%
  • Operating system support (77)
    8.6
    86%
  • Monitoring tools (71)
    8.5
    85%

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Video Reviews

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Pricing

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

starting at $0.51

Cloud
per hour

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

starting at $241.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://cloud.ibm.com/gen1/infrastructu…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

8.6
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant, dedicated servers that can be deployed and managed as cloud services. They are part of IBM Cloud and are available in either classic or VPC deployment models.


IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on VPC Infrastructure are dedicated bare metal servers that provide enhanced networking and connectivity via virtual private cloud (VPC) capabilities. They’re available now as an integrated part of IBM Cloud.


IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure are presented as ideal for large, steady state, predictable operations that rely on traditional cloud networking. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server can be customized with over 11 million different configuration combinations. IBM includes 20 TB of bandwidth. Pay-as-you-use with hourly, monthly, or reserved billing at prices set for cost management. CPU technology from Intel® Xeon® , and AMD EPYC™ , and add the latest NVIDIA Tesla GPUs are available.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features

  • Supported: Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
  • Supported: Dynamic scaling
  • Supported: Elastic load balancing
  • Supported: Pre-configured templates
  • Supported: Monitoring tools
  • Supported: Pre-defined machine images
  • Supported: Operating system support
  • Supported: Security controls

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Screenshots

Screenshot of ConfiguringScreenshot of Bandwidth ProvisioningScreenshot of Remote ManagementScreenshot of Firmware Management

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.

Alibaba Cloud ECS Bare Metal Servers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Rackspace Managed Hosting are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers.

Reviewers rate Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Being used as our primary production for our Web Apps, Internal Facing Apps, and our database warehouse.
  • Quick Deployment
  • Wide global footprint
  • Many auxiliary services beyond servers
  • Downtime!
  • Limited availability in certain markets
  • Some outdated documentation
Development, USA presence, and single source provider solutions are great for IBM Bluemix. You will need to establish DR locations as the uptime is not up to standards.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (8)
41.25%
4.1
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
60%
6.0
Dynamic scaling
N/A
N/A
Elastic load balancing
N/A
N/A
Pre-configured templates
N/A
N/A
Monitoring tools
90%
9.0
Pre-defined machine images
N/A
N/A
Operating system support
90%
9.0
Security controls
90%
9.0
  • Per server costs are down
  • Accessibility is up
  • Downtime has increased
Not all applications make sense in cloud, which is why it is nice to have access to bare metal solutions as well as cloud based solutions. We achieve operational efficiency by keeping our 24hr / 365 day workloads and compute needs on bare metal
It is on par with other solutions when comparing servers of equal size.
The servers themselves are a commodity product. Dell is Dell, HP is HP. When comparing vendors for this service, you are looking at price, SLA, and easy of use for support.
  • IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
  • IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
  • IBM Cloud Internet Services
Being able to have the same services on the same vendor allows for a smoother integration and some cost efficiencies. However this adds some risk with DR and emergency planning.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Azure, Rackspace Cloud Hosting
For the most part, implementation of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers went smoothly, however we learned that the location you select will greatly impact the quality of service and availability. Several data center locations are being decommissioned (they are older / legacy from previous acquisitions) and others are simply at capacity. Strongly suggest confirming with their technical folks regarding capacity planning before starting a migration or implementation.
No
We did not use IBM professional services to deploy and instead used our own technical staff. All went smooth in the data centers where there was capacity.
Basic (free)
We have technical staff in house which are intimately familiar and comfortable with cloud and remote environments. Therefore the basic level is almost always enough for us. The biggest downfall to the basic level is the mean time to respond. Ideally all tickets should be triaged based on severity, not by how much is paid to IBM.
We were migrating from one type of high availability firewall to a newer more capable kind. Doing so traditionally would involved either downtime or having our environment exposed with no firewall protection. The IBM Support team was able to closely coordinate times (not a 9-5 window) and help us generate a process so that when the new firewalls spun up traffic was blocked by default.
  • IBM Cloud Docs
  • Ability to check uptime status for IBM Cloud products
  • IBM Cloud product demos and tutorial videos
Ehh. Because of the sheer breath of services, the documentation was usually only mildly helpful and many times out of date. We've had the most success using live chat or calling in.
The support is decent and in an emergency they will help you if you make enough noise. However the creation of "class of customers" within the IBM ecosystem I think is a step backwards as it can put emergencies on the back burner simply because we didn't pay enough in monthly fees.
No
  • Price
When buying bare metal its all about price and SLA
It wouldn't change. Bare metal is a simple procurement process.
No. Found it unnecessary most of time since reboots and KVM is self service.
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